Learn to design land that feeds people, heals a watershed, and pays for itself.
CreaSol is a working permaculture hub above Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. We train designers, help landowners design their own ground, host people who want to learn with their hands, and work to restore the lake we live on. However you want in, there’s a door.
In Guatemala since 2008 · 4,000+ hectares designed · 500+ designers trained
Pick the one that sounds like you
Most people land here from a video, curious and not sure where they fit. Here’s the honest map.
Become a designer
Learn to walk onto land you've never seen, know what it needs, and get paid to say so. A real profession, taught by people who do it for a living.
This is for you if you want regenerative design to be your work and your income.
Become a designer
Design your own land
You own it, or you're about to. Learn to read it, sequence it, and build it in the right order — with our mapping, our method, and our eyes on your ground the whole way.
This is for you if you have land and you're tired of guessing what to do first.
Design your land
Come and work
Plant, build, cook, harvest, fail, fix. Live on a working permaculture farm at Lake Atitlán and learn more in three months than three years of reading could teach you.
This is for you if you'd rather learn with your hands than from a screen.
See the internship
Help save the lake
Lake Atitlán is one of the most beautiful lakes on earth, and it's in trouble. We're building wetlands, intercepting stormwater, and restoring the watershed with the communities who live here. You can be part of it.
This is for you if you want to help, whether or not you ever take a course.
Join the mission
I came to Guatemala in 2008 with a volunteer post and no plan.
Sixteen years later there’s a farm, a restaurant, a design practice, 500-odd designers trained, and a stretch of watershed that’s alive again. I built most of it by getting it wrong first, in public, on the same hillside, in front of neighbours whose families have farmed here for generations.
That’s the whole method, really. Try it, watch it fail, understand why, do it better. What we teach is the shortcut I didn’t have: the order that works, and the mistakes that cost me years.
Building regenerative systems on the same land.
Designed, contoured and planted, Guatemala to Texas.
Trained, and working.
No experience in. A career out.
“Since joining the program I’ve relocated to Mexico, where I’m chief designer on a major regenerative farm-to-table project — with a full pipeline of clients. I had no design experience before I started.”
Took the course, visited us in Guatemala, and rebuilt his whole approach and business.
Joined with no experience. Bought, designed and funded his own regenerative farm.
Built her own program teaching permaculture to kids in schools.
Former student, now a CreaSol partner.
Real projects. Real land. Real results.
We work alongside landowners and communities to create living examples of regeneration — not curriculum, fieldwork.
Watershed restoration
Intercepting stormwater before it reaches the lake, with the municipality of San Pedro la Laguna.
Bamboo construction
Buildings that go up fast, cost less, and grow their own material on site.
Community education
Workshops, internships and apprenticeships on working land, not in a classroom.
Regenerative food systems
Agroforestry that feeds the restaurant next door and rebuilds the soil while it does it.
Why this work matters
Regenerative design isn’t really about growing food. It’s about where the water goes, whether people can make a living here, and whether the next generation stays.
We think a human being can be good for a landscape. We’re proving it, one hillside at a time.
Not ready to pick a door?
Start with the free training and our YouTube channel — the same design method we teach inside the program, applied to a small piece of land. No cost, no call. Come back when you know which door is yours.
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However you want in, there’s a door.
Want us to design it for you? We still take on in-person design and project management. Book a call.